Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs federal court after a plea hearing on two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes in Wilmington, Delaware, July 26, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Lawyers for Hunter Biden told a judge that federal prosecutors on Friday decided to “renege” on a previously agreed…
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Attorney General Bonta Announces Guilty Plea in Bay Area Restaurant Tax Evasion …
SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, along with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA), Employment Development Department (EDD), and the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced that David Leung, a former Bay Area restaurant owner, pled guilty to eight felony counts for cheating his employees and defrauding the State of California through tax evasion. Leung owned Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet Inc. in Daly…
Hunter Biden’s lawyers argue plea deal on gun charge remains valid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for Hunter Biden are pushing to keep part of a plea deal they reached with the prosecutor whose new status as special counsel intensified the tax investigation into the president’s son ahead of the 2024 election. Biden’s attorney argued in court documents late Sunday that an agreement sparing him prosecution on…
Hunter Biden plea deal on hold: What you missed
The two counts of tax evasion are for 2017 and 2018, when Hunter Biden earned more than $1.5 million each year. A gun charge, which is being handled through a pretrial diversion program likely resulting in no jail time, is being handled in a separate case. Republicans criticized the investigation as a ‘slap on the…